Presidents

Richard S. Taylor

1965

William M. Arnett

1966

Lowell Roberts

1967

Merne A. Harris

1968

Ralph E. Perry

1969

Robert A. Mattke

1970

George H. Blackstone

1971

Robert A. Mattke

1972

Delbert R. Rose

1973

Mildred B. Wynkoop

1974

Rob Staples

1975

W. Ralph Thompson

1976

Melvin E. Dieter

1977

John A. Knight

1978

Laurence W. Wood

1979

Wayne G. McCown

1980

Paul M. Bassett

1981

David L. Thompson

1982

David L. Cubie

1983

R. Larry Shelton

1984

H. Ray Dunning

1985

Frank G. Carver

1986

Howard E. Snyder

1987

Luke L. Keefer

1988

Donald W. Dayton

1989

Randy L. Maddox

1990

W. Stephen Gunter

1991

Susie C. Stanley

1992

George Lyons

1993

Donald A. D. Thorsen

1994

Kenneth J. Collins

1995

Wesley D. Tracy

1996

Douglas M. Strong

1997-1998

Albert L. Truesdale

1999

Steve McCormick

2000

Sharon Clark Pearson

2001

David Bundy

2002

Henry H. Knight III

2003

Philip R. Meadows

2004

Craig Keen

2005

Carl C. Campbell

2006

Diane Leclerc

2007

Thomas Jay Oord

2008

Thomas Noble

2009

Rob Wall

2010

Elaine Heath

2011

Michael Lodahl

2012

Jason Vickers

2013

Editors of the Wesleyan Theological Journal

Charles W. Carter

1965-1972

Harvey J. S. Blaney

1973

W. T. Purkiser

1974-1975

Leon O. Hynson

1976-1978

Lee M. Haines

1979-1981

Alex R. G. Deasley

1982-1986

Paul M. Bassett

1987-1992

Barry L. Callen

1993-Present

Secretary-Treasurer

Merne A. Harris

1965-1967

Wilbur T. Dayton

1968

W. Ralph Thompson*

1965-1971

Richard S. Taylor

1972

O. D. Lovell

1973-1975

Armor D. Pelsker

1976

Wayne E. Caldwell

1977-1983

William Arnett

1984-1988

Howard E. Snyder

1989-1991

William C. Kostlevy

1992-2005

Samuel M. Powell

2005-Present

*treasurer only 1965-1971

Promotional Secretary

Arthur M. Climenhaga

1967-1969

Ora D. Lovell

1968-1969

Charles Carter

1970-1972

William Arnett

1972-1973

J. Duane Beals

1973-1974

Donald W. Dayton

1974-1986

Melvin E. Dieter

1986-1990

Stephen Lennox

1995-1998

Craig Keen

1998-2001

Thomas Jay Oord

2000-2010

Brent D. Peterson

2010-

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

Robert A. Traina

1994

James Earl Massey

1995

Melvin E. Dieter

1996

William M. Greathouse

1997

David A. Seamands

1998

J. Kenneth Grider

1999

Susan A. Schultz Rose and Delbert R. Rose

2000

David L. McKenna

2001

A. Wingrove Taylor

2002

Charles Edwin Jones

2003

H. Ray Dunning

2004

Richard S. Taylor

2005

None Awarded

2006

Paul Bassett

2007

Rob L. Staples

2008

Barry L. Callen

2009

Donald Dayton

2010

Howard S. Snyder

2011

Smith/Wynkoop Book Award

2000

Douglas M. Strong, Perfectionist Politics

2001

William J. Abraham, Canon and Criterion

2002

Diane Leclerc, Singleness of Heart

2003

Laurence A. Wood, The Meaning of Pentecost

2004

Floyd T. Cunningham, Holiness Abroad

2005

Samuel M. Powell.  Participating in God:  Creation and Trinity. Augsburg Fortress. 2003. 

2006

James Earl Massey.  African Americans and the Church of God (Anderson, Ind.): Aspects of a Social History.  Anderson University Press.  2005. 

2007

Howard A. Snyder.  Populist Saints:  B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists.  Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.  2006. 

2008

Charles Jones, The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Guide

2009

J. Randall Stephens, The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South

2010

Randy L. Maddox and Jason E. Vickers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley

2011

John Wigger, American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists

Dissertation Award

2006

Mark H. Mann, "Perfectin Grace: Holiness, Human Being, and the Sciences"

2007

Benjamin L. Hartley, "Holiness Evangelical Urban Mission and Identity in Boston, 1860-1910"

2008

Joanne Cruickshank, "Charles Wesley and the Construction of Suffering in Eighteenth Century England"

2009

Geordan Hammond, "Restoring Primitive Christianity:John Wesley and Georgia, 1735-1737"

2010

Brian Clark, "The Contentious Birth of Wesleyn Methodism, 1738-1741:Gender, Charism, and Sectarian Division."

2011

Brent D. Peterson "A Post-Wesleyan Eucharistic Ecclesiology: The Renewal of the Church as the Body of Christ to Be Doxologically Broken and Spilled Out for the World"

Pastor/Preacher/Scholar Award

2006

Brian Postlewait, Jeren Rowell, William Watty

2007

Robert Branson

2008

Robert Luhn

2009

Ronald V. Duncan

2011

Major JoAnn Shade